Update 2011-01-05:Do not use the local realtime.txt version "for real": the gadget will run fine for a while, but will hang after an unpredictable lapse of time - no matter what I do in the code

Cumulus Realtime Gadget updated to Version 2.2IH (21. October 2010)- accept new additional fields (up to 58) in realtime.txt- display "not updating" in red if date/time in realtime.txt does not change over 10 intervals

Update 2010-07-16: (version not changed: still called version 2.1IH):- modified code to handle local realtime.txt. New code uploaded.

Update 2010-07-09 18:45: Code updated. Version no. not changed.New: site name (the url/path minus the 'realtime.txt' bit) may be shown above the temperature (in color: lime)Controlled by a new paramter in the settings.ini: sitename = 1. Default: anything else = no site name(this was an old request (Janter?))For info: the latest code has been running flawlessly against a local file for about 24 hours now....

Update 2010-07-08 23:00: Code and document updated.Do not use the local realtime.txt version "for real": the gadget will run fine for a while, but will hang after an unpredictable lapse of time - no matter what I do in the code

Change in Version 2.0IH: (8. July 2010) - modified the code to allow reading a realtime.txt file from your local system (without a web server)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have created a small document describing the gadget:

I am also having problems, I can not get it to install I have renamed the file name to cumulusih.gadget and when I double click on it it does nothing. I have tried to open it with Windows gadget and nothing happens as well.

sorry about the problems you're having I am not familiar with javascript or http-request coding

I have done some debugging and found that the gadget returned a 'method not allowed' for the http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk/weather/realtime.txt (many thanks for providing the link for testing!).A change to the code seemed to make it work - at least for this URL.

If you still want to try, the changed version 1.5IH can be downloaded from the first, updated post.

Yes mine is working perfectly now, and so was the one installed on my mothers laptop when she tried it earlier.

It is interesting to see how it shows different data on your screenshot to mine - yours shows hPa for pressure whilst mine shows mb, as on my weather station and Cumulus and the website page. Out of interest, how does it know to, or is able to show data in different ways on the gadget? I am interested to understand how it can do that.

See attached image.

So I am VERY pleased with this gadget! Thanks!

Steve

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Yes, I realise that, but your screenshot of the gadget pulling my information from my webserver to your gadget displayed it differently, i.e. hPa rather than mb as I have it set in Cumulus and on my weather station - and presumably as it uploads it in the realtime.txt file? So I was just curious to know how it therefore shows it as an hPa value in your gadget? Do you see what I'm getting at? Just curious to understand it!